ANNIE POTTS
Name: Annie Potts.
Born: 28 October 1952 Nashville, Tennessee
Annie Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American television and film actress.
She is probably best known for playing the role of Janine Melnitz in the
Ghostbusters films and for the television sitcom Designing Women, but has had a
wide variety of prominent roles in both television and film. Other notable roles
include Mary Elizabeth (O'Brien) Sims on the Lifetime Television show Any Day
Now, the voice of Little Bo Peep in the Toy Story films, a supporting role in
the John Hughes drama Pretty in Pink, and a recent guest-starring role on the
CBS drama Joan of Arcadia.
She has done work on talking books, including as the narrator and heroine of
Larry McMurtry's "Telegraph Days".
Annie Potts is the daughter of Powell Grisette Potts and Dorothy Harris (Billingslea)
Potts and has two older sisters, Mary Eleanor (Potts) Hovious, and Elizabeth
Grissette ("Dollie") Potts. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up
in Franklin, Kentucky, where she graduated from Franklin-Simpson High School.
She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree (in theater arts) from Stephens
College in Missouri. When Potts was 17, she was hit by a car driven by a man
under the influence of alcohol.
Potts is married to television director James Hayman and is the mother of three
sons, Clay (born 1981), James (called Doc, born 1992), and Harry (born 1996).
She is a dedicated Board Member of Stephens College, and has been instrumental
in fundraising efforts for the college for many years. Potts is currently a
visiting professor of Drama at the school.
Name: Annie Potts.
Born: 28 October 1952 Nashville, Tennessee
Annie Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American television and film actress.
She is probably best known for playing the role of Janine Melnitz in the
Ghostbusters films and for the television sitcom Designing Women, but has had a
wide variety of prominent roles in both television and film. Other notable roles
include Mary Elizabeth (O'Brien) Sims on the Lifetime Television show Any Day
Now, the voice of Little Bo Peep in the Toy Story films, a supporting role in
the John Hughes drama Pretty in Pink, and a recent guest-starring role on the
CBS drama Joan of Arcadia.
She has done work on talking books, including as the narrator and heroine of
Larry McMurtry's "Telegraph Days".
Annie Potts is the daughter of Powell Grisette Potts and Dorothy Harris (Billingslea)
Potts and has two older sisters, Mary Eleanor (Potts) Hovious, and Elizabeth
Grissette ("Dollie") Potts. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up
in Franklin, Kentucky, where she graduated from Franklin-Simpson High School.
She received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree (in theater arts) from Stephens
College in Missouri. When Potts was 17, she was hit by a car driven by a man
under the influence of alcohol.
Potts is married to television director James Hayman and is the mother of three
sons, Clay (born 1981), James (called Doc, born 1992), and Harry (born 1996).
She is a dedicated Board Member of Stephens College, and has been instrumental
in fundraising efforts for the college for many years. Potts is currently a
visiting professor of Drama at the school.